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7,792 words match “ORE”

To glare; to glower. [Obs.] Halliwell.

GONOPHORE n. 2 definitions

A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.

GOOD-HUMORED a.

Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.

GOOD-HUMOREDLY adv.

With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner.

GORE v. 7 definitions

horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet. Coleridge.

The garfish. [Prov. Eng.]

GYNAECOPHORE n.

A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some dioecious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Hæmatozoa.

GYNOPHORE n. 2 definitions

One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.

A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal. [Western U.S.]

Same as Dugong.

One who, or that which, harbors. Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype.

HARD-FAVORED a.

Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. Dryden.

HARD-FAVOREDNESS n.

Coarseness of features.

HARD-LABORED a.

Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift.

HARDFAVOREDNESS n.

Coarseness of features.

HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST adv.

With the head foremost.

HELLEBORE n. 2 definitions

g powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients.

A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.